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Re: names, symbols, and contexts

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg6193] Re: [mg6175] names, symbols, and contexts
• From: Allan Hayes <hay at haystack.demon.co.uk>
• Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 02:53:28 -0500
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murray at math.umass.edu (Murray Eisenberg)
[mg6175] names, symbols, and contexts


> Here's the problem:  a symbol fname contains the name of a
> Mathematica object, e.g.:
>
>   fname = "myf"
>
> The question is how to determine the context of the object named
> byfname (in our case, the context of myf).

Murray,
The following may help:

ff = "hh";
hh = Tan;
	
Context@@ToExpression[ff,InputForm, Hold] (*context of hh*)
	
	Global`

Context[Evaluate[ToExpression[ff]] (*context of value of hh*)
	
	System`
	
	
Allan Hayes
hay at haystack.demon.co.uk
http://www.haystack.demon.co.uk